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Nathaniel Hawthorne’s second book for children, Famous Old
People (1841), is the sequel to Grandfather’s Chair.
Like Grandfather’s Chair, Famous Old People is
composed of a Preface and eleven chapters, but four rather than
five formally titled stories. Hawthorne playfully signals his
continuation of the historical stories and of the narrative model
that he had established in Grandfather’s Chair by beginning
the Preface with “Grandfather again shoves his great Chair before
the youthful public, and desires to make them acquainted with a new
dynasty of occupants.” “The iron race of Puritans” who were
portrayed in the first book for children are now replaced we are
told by “quite a …

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Citation:
Laffrado, Laura. "Famous Old People". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 24 August 2011
[http://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=33485, accessed 10 December 2016.]

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33485Famous Old People3Historical context notes are intended to give basic and preliminary information on a topic. In some cases they will be expanded into longer entries as the Literary Encyclopedia evolves.